Letcher, Greenlee D – Lewis, Clarke
Letcher, Greenlee D
lawyer, legislator, was born July 19, 1867, in Lexington, Va. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Virginia legislature, and received the re-election in 1891.
Letcher, John
journalist, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born March 29, 1813, in Lexington, Va. In 1839 he edited the Valley Star; was a presidential elector in 1849; and was a member of the convention for reforming the constitution of Virginia in 1850. He was elected a representative in the thirty-second, thirty-third, thirty-fourth, and thirtyfifth congresses; and was governor of Virginia from 1860 to 1864. He died Jan. 26, 1884, in Lexington, Va.
Letcher, Robert Perkins
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 10, 1788, in Goochland county, Va. He served a number of years in the Virginia state legislature, and was at one time elected speaker of the house. He was a representative in congress from 1823 to 1835; and a presidential elector in 1837. He was governor of Kentucky from 1840 to 1844; and in 1849 was appointed minister to Mexico.
He died Jan. 24, 1861, in Frankfort, Ky.
Leutze, Emanuel
historical painter, was born May 24, 1816, in Germany. Being obliged to leave Germany on account of political opinions, he made Philadelphia his home. His Western Emigration is conspicuous in the national capitol, and Washington Crossing the Delaware is everywhere familiar through engravings.
He died July 18, 1868, in Washington, D. C.
Levan, William Barnet
civil engineer, inventor, author, was born June 3, 1829, in Easton, Pa. He is the inventor of a steam engine governor; a self-recording steam engine indicator and glass water gauge; and an improved stationary engine. He is the author of Useful Information for Engineers; and the Steam Engine Indicator and Its Use.
Leventhorpe, Collett
soldier, was born May 15, 1815, in England. He served in the civil war with distinction and attained the rank of brigadier-general for meritorious services. He died Dec. 1, 1889, in Rutherford, N. C.
Leverett, Frederick Percival
educator, author, was born Sept. 11, 1803, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a once distinguished educator of Boston. Besides annotated editions of Juvenal and other classics, he prepared a much-valued Lexicon of the Latin Language. He died Oct. 6, 1836, in Boston, Mass.
Leverett, John
colonial governor of Massachusetts, was born in 1616 in England. He was one of the governor's council in 1665-71, major-general in 1663- 73, and deputy governor in 1671-73, becoming governor at the latter date. He died March 16, 1679, in Boston, Mass.
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Leverett, John
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 25, 1662, in Boston, Mass. was a judge, speaker of the colonial legislature, member of the council, and president of Harvard from 1707 until his death. He died May 3, 1724, in Boston, Mass.
Leveridge, John
soldier, lawyer, was born Sept. 15, 1792, in New York city.
During the war of 1812 he served as a private. He was a founder of the St.
Nicholas club and of the old Public School society, and was said to be the oldest active member of the American bar. He died Feb. 17, 1886, in New York city.
Levering, Eugene
merchant, banker, was born Sept. 12, 1845, in Baltimore, Md. He has been a successful merchant in his nauve city; president of the National Bank of Commerce; and president of the board of trade.
Levin, Lewis C
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1808, in Charleston, S. C. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1851. He died March 14, 1860, in Philadelphia.
Levy, William Mallory
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 30, 1827, in the county of the Isle of Wight, Va. In 1846 he volunteered in the first Louisiana regiment for service in Mexico, and was made a lieutenant, serving until peace was declared in 1848. He was a member of the Virginia state legislature in 1860 and 1861; and a presidential elector in the former year. He served as a colonel in the confederate service; and in 1874 was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-fourth congress.
Lewelling, Lorenzo D
educator, journalist, governor, was born Dec. 21, 1846, in Salem, Iowa. He commenced life as a common laborer on the Burlington and Missouri railroad; then drove cattle for the quartermaster's department of the union army in Tennessee; then joined a bridge building corps at Chattanooga. At the close of the war he secured a discharge and attended Knox college of Galesburg and other institutions to secure a better education. He subsequently was employed in bridge building; then again entered educational work; and subsequently became editor and owner of The Register, a weekly republican journal of mis native town. For fifteen years he and his wife had charge of the Iowa State Reform school for Girls; and he became widely known as a penologist. In 1887 he moved to Wichita, Kan., and five years later was elected governor of that state. a
Lewis, Abner
congressman, was born in New York. He was a member of the assembly of that state from Chautauqua county in 1838 and 1839; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1845 to 1847.
Lewis, Abram Herbert
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 17, 1836, in Scott, N. Y. He is a seventh day baptist clergyman of Plainfield, N. J., and a writer of much prominence in his denomination. He is the author of Sabbath and Sunday; Biblical Teachings Concerning the Sabbath and Sunday; Critical History of the Sabbath; Critical History of Sunday Legislation; Biography of the Puritan Sunday; and Paganism in Christianity.
Lewis, Alonzo
author, poet, was born Aug. 28, 1794, in Lynn, Mass. He was a verse writer of Lynn, once styled The Lynn Bard. He was the author of Forest Flowers and Sea Shells; and His-. tory of Lynn. He died Jan. 21, 1861, in Lynn, Mass.
Lewis, Barbour
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1824, in Alburg, Vt. He entered the army as a captain of volunteers in 1861, and served until 1864. In 1863 he was appointed, by the military authorities, judge for the district of Memphis, and served as such in 1863-64. In 1867 he was appointed president of the board of county commissioners of Shelby county, Tenn., and held the office until 1869. He was elected to the forty-third congress.
Lewis, Burwell Boykin
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 8, 1838, in Montgomery, Ala.
He resided at Monticello and Tuscaloosa; served in the confederate army as an officer; and was a presidential elector in 1868. He served in the state legislature from 1870 to 1872; and in 1874 was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-fourth and re-elected to the fortysixth congresses as a democrat.
Lewis, Charles Bertrand
journalist, author, was born in 1842 in Ohio.
He is a journalist of Detroit on the staff of the Free Press for many years, and since 1891 on that of The New York World. He is the author of Quad's Odds; Goaks and Tears; and The Lime Kiln Club.
Lewis, Charles H
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 17, 1839, in Erie county, N. Y. He received his education at Cornell college, Iowa; and at the Iowa Law school.
During the war he served as a private soldier in the union army; and became sergeant-major of the twenty-seventh regiment Iowa volunteer infantry; and was adjutant of his regiment one year.
He has served as district attorney for the fourth judicial district of Iowa for four years; for sixteen years was judge of the same district, which at first consisted of over twenty counties; and he was a judge in the famous murder case of Rev. George C. Haddock. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Sioux City, Iowa; president of the Iowa Loan and Trust company; and vice-president of The Northwestern National bank of Sioux City, Iowa.
Lewis, Charlton Thomas
mathematician, lawyer, author, was born in 1834 in Pennsylvania. He is a lawyer and mathematician of Morristown, N. J.; and the author of History of the German People; Latin Dictionary for Schools; and Elementary Latin Dictionary.
Lewis, Clarke
soldier, merchant, planter, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1840, in Madison county, Ala. At the age of three he accompanied his widowed mother to Noxubee county, Miss. He worked on a farm and attended the county school until the age of sixteen years; when he entered the Somerville institute; took partial course, and subsequently taught a school. He served with distinction throughout the civil war as a private in the confederate army during 1861-65. He then taught school for awhile; for thirteen years during 1866-79 was engaged in merchandising and farming on his own account; and from 1879 until his death was exclusively a planter. In 1877 he was elected to the Mississippi state legislature; and in 1884 was a candidate for congress, but was defeated by the fraction of a vote. He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a democrat, and served on several important committees. He died in 1894.